Island View Beachfront Resort

Island View Beachfront Resort: A Small Private-Beach Stay in Anda

Island View Beachfront Resort sits on Beachfront Road in Barangay Bacong, the stretch of Anda’s coastline where the municipality’s resorts and guesthouses cluster within a few minutes of Quinale Beach and the town proper. Eleven suites and cabanas make up the entire property, each facing the sea across a private beach — a small enough footprint that Tripadvisor ranks it the top-rated B&B/inn among roughly 110 listed for Anda. The OTA record backs that up: a 9.6 “Exceptional” score across 108 reviews as of the July 2026 data pull, a high review count for a property this size.

Getting here

There’s no shortcut to Anda. The municipality sits on Bohol’s eastern peninsula, roughly 110 kilometers and two-and-a-half to three hours by road from Tagbilaran, with no sea route in at all — every guest arrives overland, either by public bus toward Guindulman and a habal-habal or jeepney for the final stretch, or by chartered van (figure PHP 2,000–2,500 for the vehicle, door to door in about two hours). That distance is part of why Anda reads as a genuinely separate destination from Panglao rather than an extension of it; Panglao’s airport and dive infrastructure sit a half-day’s road trip away.

The rooms

The eleven units split between suites and standalone cabanas, all sea-facing. Reviewers single out the private beach and the small, quiet scale of the place — with only eleven keys, the resort doesn’t run at the volume of a mid-size beach hotel, and repeat guests mention the same staff and the same owner, Peter, by name across review cycles. Expect simple, comfortable furnishing rather than a design-forward build; the water view and beach access are the asset here, not the room itself.

Pool, restaurant, and diving

A roughly 20-meter pool sits beside reception, angled toward the sea, with shaded seating around it. The on-site restaurant, The Old Plantation, serves an International, Asian, and Filipino menu and draws a following beyond the resort’s own guests — several reviews mention driving over from other Anda properties specifically to eat there. There’s also an on-site dive operation, useful given how spread out Anda’s sites are: local operators count roughly 30 dive sites along the Anda–Guindulman coast, most reachable within ten minutes by boat, weighted toward wall dives, sandy slopes, and macro subjects rather than the drift-and-big-fish diving associated with the country’s better-known sites further north.

What’s around it

Quinale Beach, the free public beach with showers and a lifeguard, is a short distance away in the poblacion. For history, Punta Cruz Watchtower — a 17th-century Spanish defensive structure built against Moro raids — and a working 1893 lighthouse mark the peninsula’s tip, both physical evidence that this coastline mattered to someone long before dive tourism existed; the town itself was only formally organized as a municipality in 1850, during Spain’s reorganization of Bohol, having spent a long stretch before that as a comparatively isolated fishing settlement. A cluster of interior cave pools — Cabagnow (PHP 50 entry, an iron ladder down into deep water for jumping), Combento (PHP 20, a shallower chamber), plus Cateres, Tibaw, and Banilad Spring — sit inland and are each run independently by local caretakers rather than as one ticketed circuit. Lamanoc Island, off Barangay Badiang, adds a different kind of stop: cave formations holding pre-colonial burial jars and rock petrographs, declared an Important Cultural Property by the National Museum in October 2020, visited by outrigger boat with a guide from the Badiang Fisherfolk Association, which caps daily visitors — 97 for the caves, 48 for the mangrove trail — to limit pressure on the site.

Food and the local economy

The kitchen’s Filipino dishes lean on what the coast actually produces — kinilaw here is more likely made with tanigue or bariles than the tuna used elsewhere in Bohol, and grilled squid cooked over coconut-husk charcoal is a common find at local eateries beyond the resort gates. That’s not incidental: fishing is still the backbone of Anda’s barangay economies, and the same reef systems that make diving and snorkeling worthwhile here are also working fishing grounds, which is part of why local conservation measures — visitor caps at Lamanoc, entry fees that fund caretakers at the cave pools — matter beyond tourism marketing.

Practical notes

There’s no ATM in the beach area — the nearest is roughly 30 kilometers back toward Tagbilaran in Guindulman, so guests should carry enough cash for the stay, including for habal-habal fares, which are negotiated rather than metered. Peak season runs Holy Week and mid-December into early January, driven largely by domestic tourists from Cebu; outside those windows the eleven rooms here fill less predictably. The listed rate of roughly PHP 7,400 a night is an estimate built from comparable coastal Bohol beach-town properties at a similar review score, not a confirmed live figure — check Stay22 or Booking.com directly before booking, since small Anda resorts don’t always keep pricing pages current.

Who it suits

This is a fit for travelers who want a small, quiet, sea-facing base rather than a resort with a full activities program — divers and snorkelers using it as a jump-off point for the Anda–Guindulman sites, couples wanting a private beach without a large property around them, and anyone treating Anda itself, not a day trip to the Chocolate Hills, as the destination. It’s a poor fit for anyone expecting Panglao-level restaurant variety or nightlife within walking distance — Anda’s whole appeal, and this resort’s, is that there isn’t much of that at all.